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F. E. SAGENDORPH. SHEET METAL ROOFING.

No. 416,348. A Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

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FRANK. E. SAGENDORPH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO E. STARR LLOYD, OF SAME PLACE.

SHEET-METAL ROOFING.

SIVECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,348, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed September 16, 1889. Serial N o. 324,114. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: gations d about one-third greater than the Be it known that I, FRANK. E. SAGENDORPH; width of the corrugations c, which presents of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State the appearance of a series of roofing-tiles conof Illinois, have invented certain new and nected in the usual way.

5 useful Improvements in Sheet-Metal Roofs, In constructingaroof the lower end of each of which the following is a full, clear, and section C overlaps that of the next succeed- 55 exact description, reference being had to the ing section below-that is to say, the bead d accompanying drawings, forming a part of upon the given end of a given section covers this speciiication, in whichor overlaps the bead d upon the upper end of Io Figure l is a plan View of a portion of a the next lower section, as shown at d d', Fig.

roof partially covered with roong embody- 5, while one of the corrugations c is made to 6o ing my improvement. Fig. 2 is an enlarged overlap acorresponding corrugation upon the view in detail of a single section of sheetadjacent section, as indicated in dotted lines metal roofing constructed after the manner in Fig. 3. The respective sections may be I5 of my improvement. Fig. 3 is a sectional secured to the roof by means of nails f, Fig.

View taken upon the line :n er, Fig. 2. Fig. 4e l, inserted along the edges and driven into 65 is a side edge view of a portion of said secthe roof-frame. tion, and Fig. 5 is a perspective edge view A roof, when made in the manner described showing the manner of forming the transand properly painted, presents a neat and atzo verse joints. -tractive appearance, and cannot readily be Like letters of reference in the different distinguished fromatile roof, while itis much 7o figures indicate like parts. more cheaply constructed and is less liable to The object of my invention is to so crimp leak than a roof of real tile, for the reason or corrugate the respective sections of sheet that there are fewer joints through which to V2 5 metal employed in the construction of a roof admit water. Moreover, said corrugations althat when placed together the whole may low for the expansion and contraction of the 75 present the appearance of tile, while at the metal in both directions under varying temsaine time the respective joints may be seperatures without injury to the roof.

cure and provision may be made for the ex- Having thus described my invention, I

3o pansion and contraction of the metal, all of claimwhich is hereinafter more particularly de- 1. A sheet-metal roof-section having the 8o scribed and claimed. narrow transverse corrugations d and wider Referring to the drawings, A, Fig. l, replongitudinal corrugations c, substantially as resents a building, and B the usual roof-supshown and described.

3 5 porting frame, to which is attached, by means 2. The combination, in a sheet-metal roofof nails or other equivalent device, my msection, of the transverse corrugations d and 85 proved sheet-metal roof-sections C, which longitudinal contiguous corrugations c, the consist, respectively, of large sheets, preferdistance between the former being greater ably of the usual commercial size, having a than the width of the latter, substantially as 4o series of transverse and longitudinal corrushown and described.

' gations d c formed therein. The corruga- In testimony whereof I have signed this 9o tions d are formed at the respective ends of specification in the presence of two subscribthe sheet or section and at equa-l distances ing witnesses, this 11th day of September, between and have a bead-shaped appearance, 1889.

45 while the corrugations c are wider7 the curve r thereof representingalonger radius', and they FRANK' E' SAGENDORPH are formed immediately contiguous to each Vitnesses: other. In practice'I prefer to make the dis- D. H. FLETCHER, tance between the beads or transverse corru- J. HALPENNY. 

